It's Diwali. And am in Mumbai. And am checking some greetings conveyed on Facebook.
As observed in the last few years, this year also I find quite a few people conveying 'stay away from crackers, stay away from noise pollution'. I find it surprising.
Surprising because we, who are living in cities, endure the loud droning noise almost every single hour of our waking life. I bet if anyone can call that music or euphony. I bet if this isn't noise pollution of the highest order. But we have hardly cared about making our day to day life free of such noxious sounds.
And here, on a beautiful festival like Diwali, an integral part of which is firing and bursting crackers, we make a hue and cry about noise pollution! Tokenism at play.
Yeah, I know the common refrain: when we bear it everyday why bear it on a holiday. Such is the pathos of life that a festival turns into a mere holiday and, at best, simply a respite from the mundanity and drone of everyday life.
Better to set things right for our day-to-day life or just curb the joy of noise on a festival like this?
As observed in the last few years, this year also I find quite a few people conveying 'stay away from crackers, stay away from noise pollution'. I find it surprising.
Surprising because we, who are living in cities, endure the loud droning noise almost every single hour of our waking life. I bet if anyone can call that music or euphony. I bet if this isn't noise pollution of the highest order. But we have hardly cared about making our day to day life free of such noxious sounds.
And here, on a beautiful festival like Diwali, an integral part of which is firing and bursting crackers, we make a hue and cry about noise pollution! Tokenism at play.
Yeah, I know the common refrain: when we bear it everyday why bear it on a holiday. Such is the pathos of life that a festival turns into a mere holiday and, at best, simply a respite from the mundanity and drone of everyday life.
Better to set things right for our day-to-day life or just curb the joy of noise on a festival like this?
excuse me!,
ReplyDeletei understand being a mumbai citizen you have to endure the noises everyday,which are sometime very high to a extent.But it doen't exempt us to us or give us permission to break govt.laws.I mean i know its Diwali and indeed a very auspicious festival , but hello!! you have to see how much damage it causes.And its not only on Diwali these noise pollution start before five days and continue after five days you see how much pollution does it causes.Is it good?see it in a way of long term result and then think!!!!